The first 197 lines.
What's all this?
-If there's a magic bullet to bring Sean Gallagher down,
it's in here.
-These invoices connect Gallagher to a shell company.
-Gallagher was in deep with weapons smugglers.
My mother is a shareholder.
Was she involved?
Any association with Sean Gallagher
puts her in danger.
["Feral Love" by Chelsea Wolfe]
It appears the curse of La Gueule D'Enfer
has claimed another soul.
-Renuf, could you stop with that?
Mouth of Hell, what?
-The waters between here and Miquelon
are home to some shipwrecks.
-Some? It's been over 600!
The spirits lost to the Mouth of Hell
are said to roam the islands.
-Oh, does that mean they're here among us right now?
No, but don't laugh. It's not funny.
Well, neither is this.
Some of the, uh, locals were out early.
They noticed a drag slowing them down,
and they thought the rudder had hooked some debris,
but it was her.
No signs of bloat.
Fingers are wrinkled.
Moderate corneal clouding.
-Hm. I have no idea what that is.
-It means she's been in the water for...
three, four hours? Six maybe.
What about the scratches on her neck?
Could've been from the fishing net,
or possible signs of a struggle?
The coroner can get into that.
If anyone can find her.
Natasha is MIA.
She's not responding to my texts or my calls.
I know. I just called her again.
-Hey, Renuf, have our people been meddling with this tank?
-No, we were very careful when we removed the body.
The regulator hose is detached.
There's no damage,
so it looks like it would have been done by hand.
-Wait, how do you know what a regulator hose is?
I used to dive.
Wait, how do you know what a regulator hose is?
-Well, I got my certification in Mallorca
with a few school friends.
Fancy.
I learned how to dive in St. John's harbour.
My uncle was an underwater welder.
Used to help him in the summers.
A lot less glamorous than diving in Spain.
So, you can be in the water,
but you puke when you're on the water.
-What can I say? I'm a mystery to myself.
Oh, the Nautilus.
It's a dive shop in the marina.
-Ah, one of the dock workers recognized our victim.
Her name is Julia Martin.
I don't understand. Julia's dead?
How is that possible?
Did you know Julia well?
-When we were kids, Julia and her family
spent their summers here.
I'm sorry for your loss.
-I haven't known her, known her for years.
She's not from Saint-Pierre.
Any idea what she was doing back here?
Yeah.
She came back into town.
She was back diving.
She lived for it.
This is Julia, right?
And Elise. And her husband, John Webb.
They come in here all the time.
They're pro-divers, like Julia.
They all work together.
What's all this?
I fix phones. Uh, electronics.
I gotta make money in the off-season.
Julia's wetsuit had your rental company logo on it.
Did you rent her any other equipment?
Like a regulator?
-No. The Webbs have all the best gear,
but Julia needed a thicker wetsuit.
She'd forgotten how cold the water is here.
Where can we find these Webbs?
-They usually head out onto the water by 10,
so you should be able to catch them.
They're set up in a house just up the shore.
I don't understand.
How did Julia die?
We're working the details out.
Thanks for your time.
Hey, can I help you?
What-- what's happened?
We should go inside and talk.
Yeah, of course.
-She's dead? Julia's dead?
I...
-Julia was an experienced diver, correct?
Absolutely.
One of the best.
I've known her my whole life.
-Which means she would have been meticulous about
looking after her equipment, right?
Any diver worth their salt
is gonna double- or triple-check their gear.
Why? Was Julia's death linked to an equipment failure?
-It's protocol for divers to go out in pairs.
Yes, but we go out on our own all the time,
especially if you know the waters.
-Julia loved to go out in the early morning.
-Why do you have a framed photo of Felix Lambert in your house?
This is his house.
He owns this one and Julia's.
Lambert's the guy that hired us to be here.
Hired you to do what?
-Felix, Mr. Lambert, brought us in to document
a shipwreck called The Liberty.
-And you brought Julia, what, to come join the team?
Jules and I had a connection to Saint-Pierre.
As teens, her parents brought me along to keep her company.
God, her parents are gonna be devastated.
We noticed a security camera outside.
What's that all about?
-The neighbourhood is pretty safe.
Yeah, we had some break-ins.
Uh, one a while back, another just last week.
-John had them installed after the first time.
They steal anything?
-They hacked the electronic lock on the shed.
They vandalized our gear.
They slit all the air hoses so we couldn't dive.
-I assume you caught some of that on tape.
Can we have a look at the footage, please?
Yeah.
I mean, you can't see the guy's face.
-Did you guys report this to the police?
Felix asked us not to.
Yeah, he said he would take care of it
and then he had all new equipment sent over
the next morning.
-We're going to get an officer to follow up,
take your prints and ask some more questions,
to help rule you out of the investigation.
So, you said Felix Lambert,
he owns this place, and Julia's, is that next door?
Yeah, that's right.
-Do you have a key? We'll need access.
-Julia always kept the place locked up pretty tight.
We don't have a key.
So, Lambert would have it?
Okay.
Julia Martin, 28, originally from South Carolina.
Family used to have a summer place here on the island.
-And the parents own a fancy ski resort in Les Arcs.
Julia taught there in winter,
and then travels and dives in the off-season.
-Julia's regulator hose was detached, most likely by hand.
-If her equipment was tampered with,
we're dealing with a homicide.
Fine!
Anyways...
John and Elise Webb, do you have any intel on them?
-I looked into them, experienced divers
known for exploring shipwrecks all over the world.
They met a year and a half ago at a free dive competition.
Elise is kinda badass.
She holds the women's world record for longest free dive.
-Free dive? Is that the one
where you go down without equipment?
-Yeah, you go as deep as you can, all on one breath.
How do you not die?
-Lots of training, but some don't make it back up in time.
This is the shipwreck the Webbs are here to document.
They have all the right permits. It's legit.
-Ah. La Gueule D'Enfer.
I knew this was cursed.
You know, you mess with the Mouth of Hell,
and bad things happen.
-I mean, maybe that's why their equipment was vandalized.
-Are you suggesting that ghosts cut the lines to their tanks?
-No. Of course not.
But a lot of locals don't like those wrecks being disturbed.
Yeah, because they're cursed.
Aside from the undead,
are there any groups of individuals
who've made their opposition known?
Some.
None I'd consider violent, but I'll dig deeper.
-What about this guy, um... Felix Lambert?
What do you know about him?
Rich, entitled.
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